Eye specialist to lead US equine vet body
Equine ophthalmology expert Dr Ann Dwyer has been named the novel president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP).
Dr Dwyer, co-owner of Genesee Valley Equine Clinic inwards Scottsville, NY, was sworn inwards equally president before this month at the association’s 58th annual convention inwards Anaheim, California.
A native of Syracuse, NY, Dr Dwyer received a bachelor’s score inwards biological scientific discipline from Mount Holyoke College inwards 1975. Diverting from a brief career inwards immunology, Dr Dwyer pursued her passion for horses past times working equally a groom as well as exercise passenger for trainers at racetracks inwards New York as well as Florida. Her racetrack sense cemented her involvement inwards equine wellness care, which prompted a career motility to veterinary medicine.
In 1979, Dr Dwyer entered Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine alongside the intent to move a racetrack veterinarian. During veterinary school, she worked equally a veterinary assistant at Belmont Park, Gulfstream Park as well as Finger Lakes Racetrack. She received the Donald D. Delahanty Memorial Prize inwards Equine Studies the same yr she graduated inwards 1983.
Dr Dwyer was hired equally an associate at Genesee Valley Equine Clinic subsequently graduation as well as purchased the exercise from Dr. Robert Pearson inwards 1995. She added a full-service equine hospital to the exercise inwards 1997 as well as brought on exercise co-owner Dr Amy Leibeck inwards 2001. The five-practitioner infirmary serves the full general veterinary needs of the area’s pleasance as well as functioning horses.
She is a fellow member of the Veterinary Management Group vii (Equine Practice) as well as has delivered many presentations on accounting, exercise management as well as mentorship. Her exercise has participated inwards the AAEP Avenues Internship/Externship Program for to a greater extent than than 10 years.
In 1988, Dr Dwyer’s involvement inwards the equine middle permitted the chance to attend human medical rounds at the University of Rochester Flaum Eye Institute. She has published 4 mass chapters on equine middle disease, including recurrent uveitis as well as the management of blind horses. Dr Dwyer chaired the AAEP’s Focus on Ophthalmology coming together inwards 2009 as well as was instrumental inwards the planning of the Focus on Ophthalmology coming together inwards 2012. She currently serves equally a reviewer for Equine Veterinary Ophthalmology and Equine Veterinary Journal. She was awarded a question grant from the American Society of Veterinary Ophthalmology inwards 1994 as well as named an Honorary Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmology inwards 2011.
Dr Dwyer has served on the AAEP’s Problems Analysis, Nominating as well as Executive Director Review Committees. She has participated inwards the Governance Review, Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse as well as Bureau, as well as Educational Summit chore forces. She represented District 1 on the board of directors from 2006 to 2008 as well as joined the Executive Committee inwards 2010. She was honored past times her clients alongside the AAEP’s “My Vet Matters” recognition inwards 2005.
• Colorado State University professor David Frisbie, DVM, Ph.D, DACVS, has joined the AAEP’s board of directors as director-at-large. His term volition expire inwards 2015.
Dr Frisbie researches innovative therapies for treating articulation illness as well as serves equally associate professor of equine surgical procedure at Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine. In addition, he is a practicing partner alongside Equine Sports Medicine as well as a senior scientist at the Orthopedic Research Center.
After receiving a veterinary score from the University of Wisconsin, Dr Frisbie completed a surgical internship at Cornell University. He completed a surgical residency as well as earned a master’s score inwards articulation pathobiology at Colorado State University. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Since joining the AAEP inwards 2001, MD Frisbie has provided guidance to the Educational Programs Committee (EPC) equally a fellow member for ii price as well as the chair for i term. In addition, he’s served on the AAEP’s Abstract Review as well as Convention Planning committees, besides equally the Medication Regulation as well as Western Performance Horse Task Forces. Dr Frisbie received the 2001 Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence as well as the 2011 AAEP President’s Award for outstanding service on the EPC.
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